Why do cops do stuff like this?

Most Helpful Guy

I watched about half of the video and... wow... I can only say, there's one good reason right here why I enjoy living in Europe . U. S. police staff always have to do everything with so much violence. There's so much screaming and hitting people, throwing them on the ground, swearing at them, tasering them for absolutely no reason, getting all pissed because innocent civilians disagree with your brutality and your abuse of authority, more screaming, more swearing...European police officers can get these kind of things sorted out with 50 times less violence and the exact same efficiency. People sometimes say that American police officers have to act like a bunch of angry rhinos because they have to deal with so many people disrespecting them. I think people are disrespecting them because of their unnecessary use of violence. When a police officer talks to me in a friendly, moderate tone and asks me politely to do something, I am happy to do it (as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights). If I get yelled at, thrown at the ground and treated like a potential serial killer, my first reaction is "screw this bastard".Oh and I think it's also telling that most of the kids in this video are African Americans...

What Girls Said 5

Oh my godd, like that girl didn't even do anything worth cuffing her for!! Let alone dragg/hit/pull her hair. And those boys who didn't have anything to do with it... it wasn't even necessary for them to lay down on the grass wtf.I think cops do this shit, because they're either agressive and abusing their authority or because they get too carried away and nobody can do anything to them. Basically they do it because they can...Cops abuse their authority everywhere, but mannn y'all American cops just don't know boundaries

Video was removed, but I bet 1 in 20 cops in the same position wouldn't be violent. But with about 700,000 cops in the US, and let's say 1 in 20 of those incidences being filmed, half of those making their way onto the internet, that's still about 900 videos like that on the internet getting viral and being seen by thousands of people.